China plans to raise citygate prices of natural gas consumed by non-residential users later this year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in its work report issued Wednesday at the start of the annual session of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, on-grid tariff
It's a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases. Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this—and other ...
Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists to explore the minuscule magnetic fields in metals, exotic materials and even human tissue. University of California, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Electronics, Colored Diamonds
The Tor Foundation which has made it possible for privacy-bent Tor users to anonymously browse the web is now turning to enabling people to autonomously do instant messaging with a Tor-enabled service, dubbed Tor Instant Messaging Bundle ...
The Indian government has been caught between the conflicting demands of iron ore miners and steel producers regarding the recently imposed five percent export duty on iron ore pellets, a government official said on Wednesday, March 5. As ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Export Duty
In the past two months, both the United States (the largest exporter in 2012/13) and China (the largest producer and consumer in 2012/13) announced changes to their agricultural policies, including cotton. On February 7, 2014, President ...
Tags: Cotton Policies, Apparel
The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, mapping out all of the genes of the human genome. When the first draft of results were published many were surprised that we had only 24,000 genes. This seemed like an unremarkable amount ...
Tags: Proteins, New Medicines, Better Wine
Plastic beverage caps and closures are now more popular than metal closures, according to a new report from market research organisation Canadean. According to the report, plastic closures (49 per cent) overtook metal closures (48 per ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Bulletproof were awarded the project by the brand's owner Heineken in April 2013 based on the strength of their existing relationship with the Strongbow UK brand team. Bulletproof were tasked with creating a modern, yet masculine design ...
Half of all jars will have a new label reading ‘Bring out’, replacing the traditional ‘Branston’ so that when on shelf, the jars will read ‘Bring out (the) Branston’. For minimal financial investment ...
Tags: Pickle Packaging, Packaging
The optimization of tooling performance helps to eradicate waste.This requires giving suitable consideration to the choice and treatment of the tool steel. Consumer of tool steels are confronted with a variety of options related to flame ...
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its trading affiliate Shinsho Corporation, Japan companies Metal One Corporation and Osaka Seiko Ltd, and US-based Republic Steel to consider ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Wire Rod
DX, a leading independent mail, parcels and logistics end-to-end network operator in the UK and Ireland, has announced its intention to launch an initial public offering in order to begin trading on the Alternative Investment Market at the ...
The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new plant in Russia: from 2015, Bosch automotive technology will also be rolling off the assembly line in Samara. The site itself covers a total surface area of some 200,000 square ...
Tags: Automotive Technology, Bosch
Anta Sports Products Ltd. reported revenues declined 4.5 percent in its year ended Dec. 31, to 7.281 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) compared with 7.622 billion yuan in 2012. Net profit slid 3.2 percent in the same period to 1.314 billion ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Anta Sports